News from December 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Valdez, 51, of Grants, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawfully possessing a destructive device.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced Bert Donadelle, Jr., 26, of Georgia, to three months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez also ordered Donadelle to perform 300 hours of community service and pay a $100 special assessment.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the 12 ½-year prison sentence imposed by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy on a California resident who transported 23 kilograms of heroin (approximately 760,000 retail bags of heroin) from California to Pennsylvania.

By US DOT Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Highways and Transit Subcommittee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) will lead a Subcommittee roundtable policy discussion next week to discuss the impact of autonomous vehicle technology on the Nation’s surface transportation systems.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: The Tioga and Glacier Point Roads in Yosemite National Park are closed for the season. The series of storm systems that passed through the Yosemite Area over the last several weeks have resulted in snow accumulation throughout the park. These roads close each fall and remain closed throughout the winter months until weather conditions permit reopening in the spring next year.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Urges Collaborative Solutions and New Ideas to Combat the Explosion in Heroin and Opioid Addiction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Company to Pay $40 Million and Implement Remedial Measures on All Carnival Companies Visiting U.S. Ports.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: I want to thank our witnesses for testifying today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Ringgold man was sentenced to 36 months in prison for possessing a pistol after being convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: George Bowling Admits to Conspiring to Distribute Ice Methamphetamine.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service at Morristown National Historical Park (NHP) is pleased to announce that Capitol Exhibit Services, Inc. of Manassas, Virginia was recently awarded a $1.679 million contract to produce, fabricate and install exhibits in Morristown NHP’s Washington’s Headquarters Museum. The project...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Clinton William Yetter, 51, of Gainesville, Fla., was sentenced today in Albuquerque, N.M, federal court to 48 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his conviction on false statements and aggravated identity theft charges.

By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives on the conference report to accompany S. 2943, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Performance of the Gilmore Light Ensemble.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Rockford physician was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for making false statements in a bankruptcy case.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati, Ohio man has been sentenced to 300 months in federal prison for selling fentanyl that resulted in a near-fatal overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati, Ohio man has been sentenced to 300 months in federal prison for selling fentanyl that resulted in a near-fatal overdose.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal indictment was unsealed today charging a former staff engineer for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan., with taking bribes, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: WILKES-BARRE- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Adrian Smith, age 21, of New York, pleaded guilty on Nov. 29, 2016, before United States Magistrate Judge Joseph F. Saporito, Jr., in Wilkes-Barre, to attempted sex trafficking of a minor.